• Gork@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      t_furure_min = t_now + 5.391247 × 10^-44 seconds

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        long double future_time = static_cast(time(nullptr)) + (5.391247L * pow(10.0L, -44.0L))

        Fixed-precision arithmetic would probably be more appropriate here, but since I’m lazy, long double works. Although I am curious now if a long double has sufficient precision to give a meaningful value for this.

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          I feel like at some point, you’d need arbitrary precision and arbitrarily-sized real numbers in order to meaningfully represent it.